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Sgt Mickey · 10-04-2012, 10:11 PM

I just heard her speak at the college here and she was amazing.
I really don't get into going and hearing speakers. I just went with my American lit class. BUT she was sooo funny and I actually enjoyed when she read her poems. Normally I feel like I don't understand poetry but she talked about why she wrote certain things before she read the poem. It was pretty neat.

Any fans of hers?

Northstar · 10-05-2012, 04:08 AM

Any fans? Me! Me!

Since like 1978, when I thought poetry was Keats and T.S. Elliott and encountered "Nikki Rosa" and "Ego Tripping" in a poetry anthology. (yep, old English Lit. major here. ) Wow. Real words that sounded as if somebody might be saying them.

ever been kidnapped by a poet
if I were a poet I'd kidnap you

Sgt Mickey · 10-05-2012, 08:03 AM

She read Ego Tripping.

10-04-2012, 10:11 PM	#1
Sgt Mickey I will always remember where I was that day I am defiantly going to attempt as many as I can I thought I had never up there but I think I erased it and my brain went somewhere else Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 3,899	Nikki Giovanni I just heard her speak at the college here and she was amazing. I really don't get into going and hearing speakers. I just went with my American lit class. BUT she was sooo funny and I actually enjoyed when she read her poems. Normally I feel like I don't understand poetry but she talked about why she wrote certain things before she read the poem. It was pretty neat. Any fans of hers?

10-05-2012, 04:08 AM	#2
Northstar DIS Veteran Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 1,863	Any fans? Me! Me! Since like 1978, when I thought poetry was Keats and T.S. Elliott and encountered "Nikki Rosa" and "Ego Tripping" in a poetry anthology. (yep, old English Lit. major here. ) Wow. Real words that sounded as if somebody might be saying them. ever been kidnapped by a poet if I were a poet I'd kidnap you __________________ Me: DH: DD: DK:

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10-05-2012, 08:03 AM	#3
Sgt Mickey I will always remember where I was that day I am defiantly going to attempt as many as I can I thought I had never up there but I think I erased it and my brain went somewhere else Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Virginia Posts: 3,899	She read Ego Tripping.